2008 WAIS Workshop Agenda

AGENDA

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

4:00 to 6:00

Registration

Main Building

7:00 to 9:00

INFORMAL DINNER (Pizza and Drinks)

Cottage #1

Thursday, October 9, 2008

8:00

BREAKFAST

Main Building

8:00

Registration

Main Building

9:00

Welcomes and Introductions

Main Building

 

Topic #1:  "Mirror, mirror, on the wall" - Looking at the past to see forward

 

9:30

History of the grounded ice sheet in the Ross Sea sector, Antarctica, at and since the LGM
[Abstract]

Hall

9:45

Swinging Gate or Saloon doors: Do we need a new model of Ross Sea deglaciation?
[Abstract]    [PPT (4mb)]

Ackert

10:00

Late Quaternary fluctuation of Scott Glacier in response to grounding-line retreat in the Ross Sea Embayment
[Abstract]    [PPT (30mb)]

Bromley

10:15

Evidence for Rapid Surface Elevation Changes Around Siple Dome During the Deglacial
[Abstract]    [PPT (6mb)]

Taylor

10:30

BREAK (30 min.)

 

11:00

Glaciology of the Bottleneck
[Abstract]    [PPT (3mb)]

Hughes

11:15

Rapid Early Holocene Sea-level Rise: Laurentide or Antarctic Ice?
[Abstract]    [PPT (18mb)]

Cronin

11:30

Mega-scale glacial lineations beneath Rutford Ice Stream
[Abstract]    [PDF (33mb)]

King

11:45

Poster Introductions (30 min.)

 

12:15

LUNCH (90 min.)

 

1:45

ENSO Modulation of West Antarctic Climate
[Abstract]

Bromwich

2:00

Megapackets and Megapseudosynclines in East Antarctica
[Abstract]    [PPT 36mb)]

Arcone

2:15

PANEL DISCUSSION (30 min.)

Plenary

2:45

BREAK (30 min.)

 

 

Topic #2: "ANDRILL" - A Neat Data Recovery Initiative to Learn Lots about WAIS

 

3:15

Evidence of long- and short-term responses of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet during the Plio-Pleistocene and theirimplications:  ANDRILL-McMurdo Ice Shelf Project
[Abstract]    [PPT (64mb)]

Powell

3:30

Plio-Pleistocene evolution and variability and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from the ANDRILL, AND-1B geological record
[Abstract]    [PPT (6mb)]

Naish

3:45

WAIS collapse before GIS collapse! (~1 million years ago)
[Abstract]    [PPT (13mb)]

Scherer

4:00

BREAK (30 min.)

 

4:30

Expanding provenance constraints on Ross Embayment till to assess LGM input of ice from the WAIS
[Abstract]    [PPT (31mb)]

Licht

4:45

Climatic forcing of WAIS mass balance on glacial-interglacial and longer timescales
[Abstract]    [PPT (18mb)]

DeConto

5:00

WAIS in ANDRILL future planning
[Abstract]    [PPT (7mb)]

Rack

5:15

PANEL DISCUSSION (30 min.)

Plenary

5:45

BREAK (15 min.)

 

6:00

DINNER

Main Building

Friday, October 10, 2008

9:00

Recent flow history of Pine Island Glacier
[Abstract]    [PPT (14mb)]

Scott

9:15

Dynamic glacier thinning in the Larsen B Embayment, Antarctica, 2002-2008
[Abstract]    [PPT (21mb)]

Shuman

 

Topic #3: "When you need a friend, I'll be there" - How my model can help your model

 

9:30

Modeling West Antarctic Ice Sheet Growth and Retreat through the last 5 million years
[Abstract]    [PPT (43mb)]

Pollard

9:45

Modified Morland-MacAyeal model for ice-stream flow
[Abstract]    [PDF (1mb)]

Sargent

10:00

Toward a next-generation community ice sheet model: Progress and plans
[Abstract]    [PDF (2mb)]

Lipscomb

10:15

BREAK (45 min.)

 

11:00

Cyberinfrastructure Opportunities for Antarctic Research
[Abstract]    [PPT (4mb)]

Lubin

11:15

Effect of Climate Cycling and Meltwater Plumbing on Ice-Sheet Grounding-Line Migration
[Abstract]    [PPT (7mb)]

Parizek

11:30

Hydrostatic equilibrium: a good assumption for the position of grounding lines?
[Abstract]    [PPT (3mb)]

Nowicki

11:45

Hydraulic Fracture along Glacier Beds by Turbulent Flow of Meltwater
[Abstract]    [PPT (7mb)]

Rice

12:00

Possible Mechanisms for Glacial Earthquakes
[Abstract]    [PPT (0.5mb)]

Tsai

12:15

LUNCH (90 min.)

 

1:45

Stick/Slip Behavior of Ice Streams:  Modeling Investigations
[Abstract]    [PDF (11mb)]

Sergienko

2:00

Simulation of glaciogenic tsunamis generated by the Wilkins Ice Shelf collapse of 2008
[Abstract]    [PDF (55mb)]

MacAyeal

 

Topic #4: "Older, yes, but wiser?" - How to improve predictions of future WAIS behavior

 

2:15

Springing Forward:  The Need for Viscoelastic Ice-Flow Modeling
[Abstract]    [PPT (0.3mb)]

Alley

2:30

How to improve predictions of future WAIS behavior
[Abstract]    [PDF (4mb)]

Fastook

2:45

Reaching for the Grail:  Predicting Sea-Level Contributions from Dynamic Ice Sheets for 2100 before 2100
[Abstract]    [PPT (0.2mb)]

Bindschadler

3:00

BREAK (45 min.)

 

3:45

PANEL DISCUSSION (30 min.)

Plenary

4:15

Report of the FRISP/WAIS Workshop September 18-20, 2008

 

4:30

GUEST FEEDBACK

 

5:00

WAIS business

 

5:30

Adjourn

 

6:00

DINNER

Main Building

Posters

Megapackets and Megapseudosynclines in East Antarctica        [Abstract]

Arcone

Initial Observations and Inferences from New Field Work on Pine Island Ice Shelf        [Abstract]     [PPT (6mb)]

Bindschadler

Characterization of Internal layers and Basal Conditions at the WAIS Divide Drill Site using a VHF Surface Based Radar        [Abstract]

Blake

Reconstructing Holocene ice-marginal fluctuations with relict algal mats at Reedy and Scott Glaciers         [Abstract]

Hall

Surface elevation changes at the front of the Ross Ice Shelf; Implications for basal melt         [Abstract]

Horgan

Accumulation Patterns and Basal Conditions from Radar Observations Along the US-ITASE Traverse in East Antarctica         [Abstract]     [PPT (14mb)]

Jacobel

Surface melt magnitude retrieval over Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica using coupled MODIS optical and thermal satellite measurements during the 2002-03 melt season         [Abstract]

Karmosky

Evaluating a model of the current dynamical state of the Antarctic ice sheet using the Parallel Ice Sheet Model        [Abstract]

Khroulev

Carlson Inlet - fast or slow?         [Abstract]

King

How ice shelf morphology controls the longitudinal distribution of basal melting         [Abstract]     [PPT (3mb)]

Little

Modeling the spatial variation of ice-sheet radar attenuation         [Abstract]

MacGregor

Mapping Internal Layers Using a 12-18 GHz Plane Wave Radar         [Abstract]

O'Sadnick

A New Digital Elevation Model of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from Altimetry and Images         [Abstract]

Scambos

Possible Mechanisms for Glacial Earthquakes        [Abstract]

Tsai

Transient subglacial water-flow         [Abstract]

Winberry